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I know it’s a pain – I’ve been chasing [...]

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FREE FICTION, FILE 770, IO9 AND STAR WARS

The LIST THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED (SMOFs for the uninitiated) has been having a, ummm, lively (yeah, that’s the ticket, lively) discussion of ‘waivers of liability’, privacy rights, ownership and digital recording.
Considering that part of this discussion touches on issues that I am personally (and majorly) concerned with – enough so to have written [...]

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Happy Holidays To You All

I won’t go into a rant, other than to say – yes, I am one of those people who finds it annoying that some other people assume that everyone in the world shares their holiday/religion and won’t take the time to consider alternatives or the fact that a generic greeting/wish covers all the bases without [...]

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TODAY IS TDTESSTWTOMD

I’m not going to be around much today because I’m watching THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
over
and over
and over
again.
 
You should too!

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9 DAYS TO GO

David (the Franklin Pierce historian) has put up his own entry on the affair, and you can read it here.

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ok second test

obviously the first one did not work

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Blogging but Not Blogging

I’ve picked up some extra duties (like another blog and a website) that are practically full-time jobs (well, not really, but right now it is) and my posting here has been a little affected, and probably will be for the next few days until I refine the time-management and get everything ship shape.
In the meantime, [...]

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DON’T FORGET TO VOTE TODAY!

I’m scheduled to vote later on this afternoon and hoping I won’t have an issue. Having moved to New Hampshire in February, I had to do the registration thing and it proved to be pretty difficult.
Here in NH, we register with the Town Clerk who requires proof of residency; unfortunately, all the utility [...]

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WHAT DO WE REALLY WANT?

I was struck (again) the other day by the unending lamentations coming from some quarters of the SF community.  In my head, it sounds like I’m standing in an alley between a Catholic Church and an Orthodox Synagogue as both congregations engage in response:
From the left: Priest: “For God hath created the singularity beyond which [...]

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Locus Poll & C.O.F. List See Eye-to-Eye

via one of my many aggregated blogs (I’ll post the link as soon as I can remember it), I was informed that Locus had published the results (online) of their 1998 All-Time Poll.  This one concerned pre-1990 SF novels.
In looking over the results, I was very pleased to note that virtually every author represented on [...]

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